FAVOURABLE in a Sentence

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276 example sentences for FAVOURABLE, such as:
1. The ship forged ahead under a favourable wind.
2. The court's judgement was favourable to their client.
3. His proposals met with a broadly favourable response.
4. She gained a highly favourable impression of the company.
5. The proposal has received a generally favourable reaction.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of FAVOURABLE
favourable
 a.  occurring at a convenient or suitable time
 a.  presaging or likely to bring good luck
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Mr. Bounderby has made his proposal of marriage to me, and has entreated me to make it known to you, and to express his hope that you will take it into your favourable consideration.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
2  I dare say she would not; but she would be introduced into the society of this country under such very favourable circumstances as, in all human probability, would get her a creditable establishment.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  The season, the scene, the air, were all favourable to tenderness and sentiment.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  Little observation there was necessary to tell him that indifference was the most favourable state they could be in.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
5  In every meeting there was a hope of receiving farther confirmation of Miss Crawford's attachment; but the whirl of a ballroom, perhaps, was not particularly favourable to the excitement or expression of serious feelings.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  The entrance of the Grants and Crawfords was a favourable epoch.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
7  For I had, Fanny, as I think my behaviour must have shewn, formed a very favourable opinion of you from the period of my return to England.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
8  Suffice it, that he has behaved in the most gentlemanlike and generous manner, and has confirmed me in a most favourable opinion of his understanding, heart, and temper.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
9  I am myself convinced that it is rather a favourable circumstance.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
10  And being always with her, and always talking confidentially, and his feelings exactly in that favourable state which a recent disappointment gives, those soft light eyes could not be very long in obtaining the pre-eminence.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
11  In this favourable position of affairs, Noah rose from the ground, and pommelled him behind.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  The names which occasionally dropt of former associates, the allusions to former practices and pursuits, suggested suspicions not favourable of what he had been.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
13  In re-settling themselves there were now many changes, the result of which was favourable for her.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
14  I have just returned from a small scouting expedition, and everything is favourable.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
15  A fierce cry seemed to give the lie to her favourable report: the clothed hyena rose up, and stood tall on its hind-feet.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
Example Sentence: (66 in 5 pages)
1  The ship forged ahead under a favourable wind.
2  The bank will lend your company quite a huge sum of money on very favourable terms.
3  The court's judgement was favourable to their client.
4  Employee attitudes towards a move may be made more favourable if the employer allows the relocation to take place during school holidays.
5  This period provided a favourable environment for the spread of communism.
6  The proposal has received a generally favourable reaction.
7  A smart appearance makes a favourable impression at an interview.
8  The scheme might work better with more favourable circumstances.
9  It's encouraging to receive a favourable report on one's work.
10  His recently completed chapel for Fitzwilliam is attracting favourable comment.
11  His proposals met with a broadly favourable response.
12  She gained a highly favourable impression of the company.
13  The basic aspiration is that culture should serve as a rallying point for nation building - in practice neither the finances nor the security conditions seem very favourable.
14  He obtained his position more by favour than by merit or ability.
15  There's a lot of contention about that issue - for every person firmly in favour, there's someone fiercely against it.